Free Your Business With Public Cloud
Public Cloud makes the cutting edge of cloud computing accessible to businesses at all levels – from start-ups to enterprise organizations – allowing them to deploy resources on demand while retaining maximum flexibility and complete control of their costs. Whether you require servers to power your website or e-commerce platform (maintaining optimal uptime), are keen to explore the possibilities offered by containerization, or want to take all the stress and expense out of securely storing your critical business data, the OVHcloud Public Cloud infrastructures provide you with the tools to do so today.
There is a wide range of cloud solutions and cloud strategies – both for hardware and software – that benefit businesses and the end user. Due to its flexibility, scalability, and agility; the journey to the cloud is powered by business needs and requirements. But whatever cloud adoption you choose – whether it be SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS – the cloud solution will likely reduce workloads and create lasting cost savings.
Public Cloud Definition
The public cloud can be defined as a service that provides users access to computing resources, which are shared with users on servers maintained by an external service provider. This concept of shared resources is known as multi-tenancy, allowing various users, or "tenants," to use the same resources across a server.
However, a public cloud doesn't mean users can access other users' information on the same server. Instead, each user or tenant on a public cloud server has an environment walled off from the rest. Users on a public cloud server typically have guaranteed resources, ensuring their cloud computing needs can be met regardless of other users' activity.
Advantages of Using Public Cloud TKTK
When it comes to private cloud vs. public cloud, the public cloud is better because it's more affordable, can be scaled quickly, and requires zero maintenance. Despite private cloud being hailed as having superior security, public cloud security is robust.
Cost-Efficient: No upfront costs for hardware or infrastructure. Users typically pay for what they use. OVHcloud's public cloud prices are flexible and vary by instance. For example, users who sign up for a general-purpose instance will be charged as little as 11 cents per hour.
Scalability: Provides instant scalability to adapt to changing workloads and demands. Users can quickly scale resources up or down based on their needs.
No Maintenance: The cloud service provider handles maintenance, software updates, and infrastructure upgrades. Through a public cloud provider, you no longer have to pay for staff to manage your on-premise private cloud or keep your servers secure.
Accessibility: Users can access services and applications from anywhere in the world as long as they have an internet connection.
Quick Deployment: New applications and services can be deployed rapidly, making it easier for businesses to launch and iterate.
Innovation: Access to the latest technologies and services, such as AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics, without significant investments. With our cloud GPU services, you can tap into the cloud to increase the bandwidth needed to run your large language model or other machine learning applications.
Resilience: Many public cloud providers offer built-in disaster recovery and backup solutions, ensuring data is safe and recoverable. Ensure your data stays intact with public cloud storage solutions like volume backup, a feature that restores your cloud to a previous volume in case of a disaster.
Resource Management: Automatic allocation and de-allocation of resources based on demand, leading to optimized performance.
How Does a Public Cloud Platform Work?
With a Public Cloud solution, you simply pay for the cloud resources you need and access them over the internet, while an external cloud service provider hosts them on their own infrastructure, in addition to assuming full responsibility for their management and maintenance. This way, you enjoy the benefits of cloud computing — particularly its speed, elasticity, and scalability — without needing to purchase, deploy, and maintain on-premises dedicated servers.
You can deploy new cloud instances with a single click and manage them remotely through our user-friendly online Control Panel, or your preferred API. At OVHcloud, with most of our products, there is no resource over-allocation. You only pay for what you use, when you use it, adding and removing business applications and cloud resources as required. Cloud computing infrastructure is a highly cost-effective tool for scaling in a controlled, intelligent way that allows failover in particularly busy, resource-intensive periods. The elasticity and agility of cloud solutions and cloud services offer improved uptime and business continuity without the need for huge investments in computing infrastructure.
How Is Public Cloud Structured?
One of the key benefits of the Public Cloud is its flexibility and agility. There are multiple ways it can be structured and delivered, including:
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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): SaaS is an increasingly popular approach to delivering world-class software, allowing users access over the internet on a pay-as-you-go basis. Cloud users can enjoy the benefits of cloud software service management, such as reduced security concerns and less chance of data loss. Salesforce, Dropbox, and Slack are some examples of public cloud technologies that are user-facing.
- Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS): With these cloud solutions, software developers are able to launch their preferred development environment device, allowing them to create software and push out updates. Examples of this include AWS Lambda, Google App Engine, and Oracle Cloud Platform.
- Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS): This involves providing the building blocks of a secure, web-scale infrastructure, including servers and cloud storage solutions, ensuring your digital resources can grow with your organization. Infrastructure as a service is a fully managed cloud deployment. Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Digital Ocean are some examples of IaaS.
The OVHcloud Public Cloud range is designed to take full advantage of this flexibility, scalability, and agility, allowing you to launch mission-critical projects and develop your IT infrastructure in a way that’s right for you. Based on the highly regarded OpenStack technology, you enjoy root access as the end user and can choose from a selection of cloud management interfaces, allowing you to configure your cloud resources and cloud solutions however you see fit. This is all supported by full reversibility for all your data; simplified, predictable pricing; and OVHcloud’s industry-leading Anti-DDoS protection.
Public Cloud Services
Websites and E-commerce
The flexibility and scalability of the OVHcloud Public Cloud makes it ideal for powering your websites and e-commerce platforms, with the ability to host your instances at any of our global network of data centers meaning you can locate them wherever your end users are based. The ability to deploy new instances at a moment’s notice makes it easy to maintain uptime regardless of particularly busy periods or spikes in traffic.
Storage
Organizations at all levels work with higher volumes of data than ever before, making storage and data management a pressing concern. With this in mind, OVHcloud offers a wide range of flexible, affordable Cloud Storage solutions, including automated volume snapshots and instance backups, allowing you to recover your data in a single click, should you ever need to.
Containers and Orchestration
We have designed and developed multiple Public Cloud solutions to make managing and orchestrating your containers as effortless as possible, including our industry-leading Managed Kubernetes solution.
Data and Analytics
High-speed IOPS and NVMe drives make the Public Cloud the ideal foundation for transforming your raw data into clear, actionable business-critical intelligence, with a selection of powerful self-service tools on offer to make the process as stress-free as possible.
Sandbox Environments
Spin up fully isolated sandbox environments in just a few clicks, launch your projects, and move them to production when they are ready. The path from concept to product has never been easier!
Hybrid Cloud
OVHcloud Public Cloud is designed to effortlessly integrate with both your on-premises IT infrastructure and our other cloud services and bare-metal solutions, with solutions like the OVHcloud vRack enabling you to create secure private connections wherever your instances are hosted.
Why OVHcloud Public Cloud May Be Right for You?
With OVHcloud public cloud solutions, you can get the most out of cloud computing to meet your business needs. And you won't have to pay for more than you need, ensuring costs stay within your budget. Our pay-as-you-go business model is simple: We only charge you for the resources you use, often with an hourly or gigabyte granularity. More importantly, our technology can seamlessly migrate your data to the cloud.
Our public cloud solutions are fast, secure, affordable, and versatile. OVHcloud's public cloud offers everything from cloud archive and object storage to managed Kubernetes and cloud GPU instances. As one of the leading cloud computing companies worldwide, we have the extensive resources and knowledge to help companies thrive in the cloud.
If you want to learn more about the public cloud and how OVHcloud can help, contact us or learn more about our public cloud solutions.